West Rockville MD Weather

Tuesday made its small contribution (0.28″) to our wet week, how wet will depend on what kind of initial visit we get at the end of the week from Hurricane Florence which looks more like it will mostly be out of round 2 early next week. A cloudy day, with brief showers midday (1205-1235, max rain rate 2.97″/hour @ 1220) and dense early AM fog that hung around till the showers came in, temperatures held in the muggy upper 60s…

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Monday started what potentially may be quite a wet week, depending on what kind of visit we get at the end of the week from Hurricane Florence. A cloudy day, with occasional drizzle/light rain (.09″ daily total) and early AM fog, temperatures slowly crept through the 60s into the low 70s, as did the dew point. At what temperature does your condition description move from damp, to muggy, and then to humid? The Monday maximum temperature climbed to 71.4° @…

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This past weekend, on both Saturday and Sunday, we spent most of our temperature time in the 60s (and a little bit into the low 70s and upper 50s), totally cloudy with off and on rain (total of 1.97″ over the weekend). The Saturday maximum temperature was 72.1° @ 0823, while the Saturday minimum temperature was 59.6° recorded @ 2359. The dew point temperatures lowered, ranging from a high of 71° @ 0720 down to a low of 58° @…

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Friday turned cloudy by afternoon after some morning hazy sun, with temps holding in the mid 80s because of the clouds, then cumulus clouds bubbled up quickly in the late afternoon and early evening, and we got hit with the heaviest rain out of a thunderstorm between 1945-2000 (1.58″ for the day – with well over an inch falling in that 15 minute period, maxing out with a rain rate of 8.47″/hour @ 1954). I had over 40 strikes in…

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Thursday was mostly sunny through most of the day with a few scattered cumulus at times in the afternoon, hot and humid like it has been over the past several days. But then there was a “dry” thunderstorm about 1945, with numerous loud thunder claps and close by lightning, but strangely with no rain. I was in our party room playing Trivia on the 1st floor of Bldg A next door. We kept checking on rain but to no avail….

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Wednesday was mostly sunny with a few scattered cumulus at times in the afternoon, hot and humid like it has been over the past several days. The Wednesday maximum temperature was 90.3° as it was yesterday but @ 1510, while the Wednesday minimum temperature was 73.1° @ 0600. The dew point temperatures held in the low-upper 70s all day once again, ranging from a low of 72° @ 0347 up to an uncomfortable high of 78° @ 0955. The barometric…

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I have been busy with the Labor Day holiday and end of the month/beginning of the new month weather activities causing me not to be able to post my daily weather update the past few days. I will somewhat condense the past 3 days (Sunday, September 2 through Tuesday, September 4) into this one message. No rain has fallen through this period, just warm to hot temps, high dew points (almost totally above the 70° mark) with partly sunny to…

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We had a mostly cloudy Saturday with high humidity once again and a late evening brief, heavy thunderstorm that got September started off to a wet start (0.86″ between 2045-2155 with a max rain rate of 3.58″/hour @ 2055). High temps only reached the low mid-80s with dew points predominately staying above 70° most of the day. The Saturday maximum temperature was 83.0° @ 1551, while the Saturday minimum temperature was a mild 72.2°, early @ 0112. The dew point…

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A not so hot ending to the month of August, a mostly cloudy Friday with high humidity returning and occasional showers falling, mostly in the early AM hours (0.06″ between 0100-0200) and then a bit more in the early evening. High temps only reached the lower 80s with dew points predominately staying above 70° until a bit below that mark in the late evening. The Friday maximum temperature was 82.1° @ 1759, while the Friday minimum temperature was a mild…

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A partly cloudy Thursday was not as hot, failing to hit the 90° high temp mark for the first time since Monday, and was a bit less humid, with actual clear, blue skies in the morning and a dew point drop of about 5°. Clouds did develop in the afternoon somewhat, with scattered showers in the region but not at my station till after midnight, to be discussed in Friday’s report. High temps reached the upper mid-80s and dew points…

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